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No one went to this grandma's art show, and the Internet is pissed
All it takes is one sad tweet to change the course of your grandparent's bad day. We've seen it with Sad Papaw, who went from neglected grandfather to burger-grilling superstar. Now, there's Grandma...
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What the actual f**k is up with this baby gender announcement?
Taking the traditional route and unveiling your unborn baby’s gender only to your friends and loved ones... isn’t the way to do it in the age of social media. The more creative and original the better,...
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Meghan McCain just got owned harder than anyone else in this entire election...
Meghan McCain took to Twitter this week to voice her frustration over Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican party's electorate.Unfortunately for McCain, the American public wasn't about to let her...
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Kill an iconic meme with the official dat boi game
Earlier this week, Miles Klee destroyed the ever-loving hell out of the sacred unicycling frog meme known as dat boi. Then he remorselessly celebrated his big kill in a merciless opinion piece.Offing...
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President Obama delivers powerful Howard University commencement speech
President Obama delivered his final commencement speech while in office to an historically black college on Saturday. The commander in chief spoke for 45 minutes at Howard University's graduation...
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Hot new conspiracy theory suggests that Beyoncé has a clone
Ever since Lemonade dropped, Beyoncé fans and the media have wondered just who “Becky with the good hair” is. But now, one theory posits that Becky could be... Beyoncé herself??? Well, not really...
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Black Twitter wins Kentucky Derby with #BlackDerbyHorseNames
Black Twitter is one of the smartest and funniest entities on the Internet. Whether these tweeters are roasting relatives during the holidays or grilling Raven-Symoné, it's all A+ content. This time...
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The problem with Mother's Day and social media
There's simply no way to dodge Mother's Day on social media.You open up Facebook and people are writing several-paragraph-long statuses that border on epic, Instagram is full of selfies and throwbacks...
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#MaybeHeDoesntHitYou is a reminder that not all abuse is physical
While physical domestic abuse is a serious issue, there is a common assumption that "abuse" only means behavior that leaves bruises and scars. But abuse happens in many different ways, and now people...
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Keep real-time Twitter weird
Like the Internet, Twitter is great because of its depth—a sprawling mass of content and community so big, it has the potential to be all things to all people. Unfortunately, Twitter’s size is also...
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Meryl Streep and Morgan Freeman are Future's parents
Now that that former presidential candidate Ted Cruz has been officially outed as the Zodiac Killer, it’s time to analyze another conspiracy theory. Yes, that’s right: Three-time Oscar winner Meryl...
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#BigGuyTwitter celebrates the beefy men of the Internet
Not to be all “it happens to men too!” but the pain of trying to live up to an ideal body image does happen to men too. According to Models.com, the average male model should be between 5’9” and 6’2”,...
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The Internet has already roasted the new Pokémon to a crisp
It's been observed that each new generation of Pokémon incites to critics complain about how much the designs suck, especially compared to the first-generation characters, long considered the gold...
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How Twitter's public safe space is changing lives in its own neighborhood
Last summer, Olga wanted to learn to code. A San Francisco transplant who brought her family from Kazakhstan, she struggled to find a job in the city. With limited resources, she turned to Twitter's...
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The 11 best Donald Trump parody hats on the Internet
Likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a well-known hair situation that I'm reluctant to refer to as baldness, but it's basically baldness. Perhaps as a result of his combover, his...
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#TallGirlTwitter shows all women are 'allowed' to wear heels
Yesterday, #BigGuyTwitter hit the Internet, which looks like it revived its twin on the women’s side of the Web: #TallGirlTwitter. The hashtag has been around in various forms for a few years, but it...
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Twitter roasts Azealia Banks over prejudiced tweets about Zayn Malik
Azealia Banks made waves this week after tweeting some pointedly prejudiced remarks at former One Direction member Zayn Malik.The feud started on Tuesday when the rapper Instagrammed screenshots from...
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Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to buy this $17,000 solid gold dildo
Gwyneth Paltrow is many things: She’s an Oscar-winning actress, she’s a singer, she’s a lifestyle blogger. And now she can add something new to her ever-expanding repertoire: expensive sex toy...
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The man behind the great emoji monkey debate reveals why he unleashed chaos
Once in a lifetime—OK, like once in a year—a question comes along that seems to split the Internet commentariat in twain. Would a dog wear pants with two legs or four? Was "The Dress" black/blue or...
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This is what $1 million in meme research looks like
With nearly $1 million in grant money from the National Science Foundation, staff at the Indiana University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research have dedicated the past six years to...
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